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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – Materials Recycling and Consolidation

Our company objective is to align ourselves with achieving a reduction of waste that ends up in landfill by implementing a program of resource reduction and recovery. Our focus is to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle to achieve a redirection of waste away from landfill to alternative uses.

Since there are so many ways to reduce, reuse, recycle waste, only a small amount of waste needs to end up as landfill. Waste disposal should be the last option. We focus on building relationships with businesses and companies that accept recoverable resources and turn this into energy and new products.

Collected dry waste material is sorted and separated into reusable materials. The materials pass through a sorting process that reclaims and recycles materials such as timber, concrete, metals, green waste etc. Products such as recycled crushed concrete have a significantly lower carbon footprint than equivalent new product extracted from a quarry [read more]. Items such as cardboard now use up to 90% of recycled cardboard in the manufacture of new products.

What it’s made into

Concrete is sorted and separated and then crushed and screened into various products such as drainage gravel, paving bedding etc. Some of this product is used to build roads and motorways. Check what bins are suitable for concrete.

What it’s made into

Batteries are transported to companies that recover the plastic and lead. The plastic is recycled into new plastic products and the lead is melted into ingots and used to make building materials such as weatherproof roof flashing.

What it’s made into

Cardboard and paper is pulped and processed into new cardboard packaging.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

We extensively use businesses and waste disposal facilities that accept various waste types and apply high levels of sorting, extraction, resource recovery and value added production methods to produce new products thereby reducing the volume of waste that ends up in landfill.

Materials Recycling Transport

The introduction of a Waste Levy (touted for 2019) will see a greater importance for industry and business to introduce recycling programs.

An initiative of Handybin Waste Services & Big Bins is the supply of bins and transport to businesses that produce recyclable materials such as Concrete, Bricks, Timber, Steel, Paper, Cardboard Plastics etc.

We can provide bins at low rental costs along with transport of materials to businesses and companies that purchase recoverable and recyclable materials to be processed into energy and new products.

Businesses such as Engineering & Metal Fabrication businesses generate a regular flow of scrap metal. Often this is removed by a scrap metal merchant and sent for recycling. We believe that there is an opportunity for businesses that generate recoverable and saleable waste items such as ferrous and non-ferrous metals, paper, cardboard etc. to own their own bin. A business is then in a position to negotiate with different buyers of recyclable products then use transport companies such as ours to transport the bins of recycled materials to buyers.

Businesses can offset the cost of recycling and in many cases obtain a premium above the cost of transport when selling the materials. The major benefit of managing the transport is that businesses can negotiate with different suppliers/buyers and obtain the best market price on the day/week for the recyclable product.

CASE STUDY 1

We were recently approached by a large printing business that generated up to 30 – 60 cubic metres of paper and cardboard per week due to misprint and production over runs. The weight of the materials was between 15 – 20 tonne of paper and cardboard per week. As the company was free to negotiate with different buyers they were able to obtain a premium for the material well above the price of transport. In this case the business generated a profit on implementing a self managed recycling program.

We were able to consult with the company and through our years of experience in the purchase and construction of bins we were able to advise them on the best bin solution and obtain the lowest and most competitive price for the construction of 2 x 30m3 bins. The company was able to negotiate with different buyers of recyclable products then use transport companies such as ours for the transport of the bins of recycled materials to buyers. They truly understood the concept of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

CASE STUDY 2

A large construction company was undertaking the refurbishment of three school buildings and the demolition of an old hall along with the construction of a new Hall. The Queensland Government and Education Queensland have a strong commitment to the concept of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle concept. The project involved the demolition and removal of a large number of recyclable materials such as timber, steel roofing, electrical wiring and concrete. All of these items could either be sold or disposed of at lower disposal rates once separated. The result was a 60 % reduction of the costs when compared to simply mixing the waste and paying disposal fees.

CASE STUDY 3

A car dealership had a large number of ‘Ute bodies’ that had accumulate when ‘aluminum tray bodies’ had been fitted to vehicles along with other miscellaneous scrap metal in their workshop. Due to the size of the bodies a larger bin allowed easy loading.

We provided a 25m bin which has a large rear tailgate which allowed the bodies to be safely placed into the bin. This job involved our company taking the scrap metal to a scrap metal merchant. Due to the volume of this type of materials we transport we are able to access higher tonnage rates for the sale of scrap metals for our customers. The sale of the scrap resulted in credit/rebate back to the customer over the cost of providing our services.

Phone us today to see how we can help you obtain the best outcomes for your recyclable products.

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